Reddit reviews EVERYTHING STORE: JEFF

I recently read The Everything Store which is the story of Jeff Bezos and Amazon. One of the really interesting parts of the book was about the differences in how Wal-Mart and Amazon operate their warehouses. Wal-Mart has a difficult time trying to be Amazon with walmart.com because Wal-Mart's entire infrastructure is optimized for pushing mass quantities of merchandise out to the stores. Selling individual items to individual consumers doesn't fit well with their operations. Wal-Mart has an edge over Amazon in purchasing power that comes with the quantities they deal with but once the items get off the container ship from China, everything Wal-Mart does in their operations goes against what they need to be doing to take on Amazon.